Summary as introduced:Hate crimes; gender, sexual orientation, gender
identity, or disability; penalty. Adds disability, gender, gender
identity, and sexual orientation to the categories of victims whose
intentional selection for a hate crime involving assault, assault
and battery, or trespass for the purpose of damaging another's property
results in a higher criminal penalty for the offense. The bill also
adds disability, gender, gender identity, and sexual orientation
status to the categories of hate crimes that are to be reported to
the central repository of information regarding hate crimes maintained
by the Virginia State Police. The bill also provides that a person
who is subjected to acts of vandalism to his real or personal property,
where such vandalism is motived by disability, gender, gender identity,
and sexual orientation, may bring a civil action to recover his damages.
The bill also provides that no provider or user of an interactive
computer service on the Internet shall be liable for any action voluntarily
taken by it in good faith to restrict access to material that the
provider or user considers to be intended to incite hatred on the
basis of disability, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation.
Full text:11/20/17 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18100688Dpdf | impact statements